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Harts Horn

Homespun space rock.

About Me


My name is Joe Davis. I’ve been in lots of different bands and music projects over the years including Bahkahtah, Scalded Dog, Pyramids On Mars, Blood Of The Dragon Orchestra, The Far Look. I also curate the psych/experimental music comp series - What’s Up Mutants. You can view Volumes 1-3 at www.whatsupmutants.s5.com. Harts Horn is my solo home taping project. I play almost everything on it. Harts Horn has released 14 self produced CDR’s so far. They are:HEARSAY & HERESY, CERNUNNOS, THE HOLLOW EARTH, JETTISONED (featuring Astro Al), SSSONGSSS, ANTHEMIC DIRGE OF COSMOS, QUIXOTIC UNDERGROUND, I WEAR DESIGNS, ETHER/ORE, EGG ASH SKULL GARDEN, PET NOIZES (split CD with Astro Al), BEGIN TO EXIST, DYSTOPIAN MIRRORSCAPE, & WHEN SNAKES HAD LEGS AND WE WERE FREE.

I am always willing to trade for your CD, zine, or other DIY project... Or if you would like a free Harts Horn sampler, just email me - you have but to ask. Cheers.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/23/2005
Band Website: Website forthcoming...
Band Members:
joe davis. I write and play everything, with occasional guests.
Influences: Hawkwind, Can, Ghost, Psychic TV, T.Rex, Pink Fairies, Julian Cope, Amon Duul, ST 37, Acid Mothers Temple, Kristin Hersh, Robyn Hitchcock, Cabaret Voltaire, Current 93, Richard Pinhas/Heldon, Ozric Tentacles, Neu!, Tomorrow, Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, John Fahey, Thinking Plague, Forever Einstein, The Beach Boys, Peter Frohmader's Nekropolis, AcidGuitarKing, Pretty Things, Man, Link Wray, Blue Cheer, Les Baxter, Solid Eye, W.O.O. Revelator, Bevis Frond, Sun Ra, Shirley Collins, Caetano Veloso, Egberto Gismonti, David Torn, Voivod, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Subhumans, Graham Bond's Magick, Aphrodite's Child, Leonard Cohen, Klaus Schulze, F/i, Steve Peregrine Took, Perry Leopold, Jefferson Airplane, Motorhead, Velvet Underground, Chuck Berry, Nik Turner, Gong, Carla Bley, Deus Ex Machina, Goblin, Van Der Graff Generator, Screaming Blue Messiahs, Shriekback, Census Of Hallucinations, Sunn O))), Michigan rock (MC 5, Amboy Dukes, Rationals, The Up, The Frost), anything on the French jazz label - Label Bleu (Michel Donato, Richard Galliano, Henry Texier, Michel Portal), anything on the Nordic music label - Northside Records (Hedningarna, JPP, Garmarna, Frifot, Lena Willemark, Loituma, etc.), the movies comics and life of Alexandro Jodorowsky (especially El Topo), the movies of Jean Rollin (especially Requiem For a Vampire/Caged Virgins), Logan's Run, Zardoz, coffee, camp fires, British comic books (2000 AD!!!), self published zines, homesteading and D.I.Y. culture.
Sounds Like: Hawkwind, space rock, krautrock, - mixed with some avant garde,electronic, jazz, and pagan folk influences. Filter that through a love of punk rock and D.I.Y. culture, beat poetry, and science fiction. Cosmic gumbo.
Record Label: Why? I enjoy being my own boss...
Type of Label: None

My Blog

soundclick.com

I finally got around to making a Harts Horn page on soundclick.com. It's a pretty good place for finding independent music with a lot of free downloads available. I tried to take the interview section...
Posted by Harts Horn on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:24:00 PST

Klaus Dinger, R.I.P.

Cheers to one of the greatest musicians of our time. I think about you always... joe KLAUS DINGER, R.I.P. (REPRINTED FROM THE INDEPENDENT ONLINE) In the Seventies heyday of German experimental rock ...
Posted by Harts Horn on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:04:00 PST

upcoming performance situations

I have a few gigs coming up here in May that I should mention. May 2nd, my other band - The Far Look will be playing at Manifesto in Niles, MI. This is a psychedelic rock/free jazz/electronic noise d...
Posted by Harts Horn on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:07:00 PST

radio play

I figured I better announce that Harts Horn got some radio play on Don Compau’s excellent No Pigeonholes radio show. Don played "Telepathic Galleon" from Anthemic Dirge Of Cosmos on the Feb 28th...
Posted by Harts Horn on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:56:00 PST

my favorite records from 07

Truthfully, I didn't keep up with many new releases this last year. I guess I been too busy listening to older music and having babies and stuff. Here's a few new releases I did pick up...
Posted by Harts Horn on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 05:23:00 PST

Lakota Sioux declare soveriegn nation status

..>   This is amazing, and more amazing that we haven't seen anything about it on the news.... sheesh. joe Freedom! Lakota Sioux Indians Declare Sovereign Nation Status Current mood: awake Ca...
Posted by Harts Horn on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:32:00 PST

GBV on ABC?

Egads... I heard the classic Guided By Voices track "I Am A Scientist" in the background of the new Christina Applegate sitcom - Samantha Who last night. Is this what our parents must have felt like t...
Posted by Harts Horn on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:17:00 PST

UFOs filmed on 17th July 2007, Avebury, UK

Reposted from Tony's blogUFOs filmed on 17th July 2007, Avebury, UK. ...
Posted by Harts Horn on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:30:00 PST

AMAZING LOCAL SHOW... Come and be amazed...

19 Oct 2007, 08:00 PM 2105 Mishawaka Ave., South Bend, Indiana 46615Cost : Playing at the marvelous South Bend Greenhouse. This is quite an incredible line up for a local show here. For some reason...
Posted by Harts Horn on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:33:00 PST

Space Rock Radio airplay at Aural-Innovations.com

Looks like we got a little more airplay for Pet Noizes. Space rock king, Jerry Kranitz, added the Harts Horn tune "Squirmwyrm" to the latest space rock radio show. I was real happy about that song cho...
Posted by Harts Horn on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 05:52:00 PST